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...what an August. So flat that it?s once again getting to be amateur?s work to spot the general contour of this market. The bubble days of up, up, up were obviously a lot more fun, but this dog-days landscape has its own quixotic poetry. Homework assignment: Go to Kansas, look around and ask the locals if there?s a mountain coming anytime soon. They?ll tell you what?s what...
...friend, a consummate professional, is also, like most writers, a touchy and irrational animal. Writers howl, run in circles, and bite editors on the calf. Bill Clinton, though brilliantly seductive as a communicator, comes as an amateur to the business of memoir-writing. How difficult will Clinton be to handle? I don't know. And who will be handling whom? Gottlieb is smart enough to refrain from writing in the margin, "INSERT SEXUAL NITTY-GRITTY HERE." Gottlieb's problem will be to get the boy from Hope to be honest in more important ways...
...Longfellow seemed to be such a good-natured person. He always responded to letters from admirers and tried to help amateur writers,” he said...
...DiBenedetto dredged up the names of literally hundreds of Einhorn's international coterie of friends and true believers, and he went after every last one of them. The mere thought of the task was daunting, but DiBenedetto, an amateur sculptor and book collector, has no problem with long stories. He owns multiple copies of the Iliad - six or eight, he can't remember which. Einhorn didn't have some burned-out patronage stiff after him. The Unicorn was being tracked by a hard-boiled, law-and-order renaissance...
...following his resignation, the Crimson editorial staff turned from its typical criticism of Harvard football to laud Bingham's commitment to amateur ideals...